MY SUFFERINGS ARE HOLY

My sufferings are holy

My tears are pure

Their charter to teach solely

Finding who standeth sure

Though many mock and faces revile

It shall be my daily cross --

Thwarting for Destiny's sake, all actions that beguile

Always shall I press on with pious force

Of all things that may plague the human soul

To keep it tame and lose its goal

My sufferings regardless help me to know

That all is done to make me whole

You can only say this when you have come into what I call a definite oneness with God. You know then that all is done to make you the man He has built you to be. The work of conforming you to His image is not something that will be done when you are sleeping alone. It is something that involves a complete turn-around of all that had hitherto defined you. Some of us are waist-deep in the wrong things, others are just running at break-neck speed in the WRONG DIRECTION. When God steps in, it's not to punish you. If He would, it would definitely be as a Father would a son. Cast out any fear. God is not wicked! He is endlessly in love with you and me.

Many will find out that their company of friends are not satisfying anymore. It's not because you are bad. It is a sign that your spirit yearns for more than that. Your spirit yearns for that which only God can give you. Please be not sorrowful or hopeless when things turn out in baffling ways. God is calling your attention to your need to drop all you (think) you are and get for yourself, a NEW IDENTITY, HIS IDENTITY!